The Lord of the Sea [Paperback]

M. P. Shiel (Author)

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Publication Date: June 2004

See now a shocking scrimmage, a rush and crush for precedence, surge upon surge of men jostling each other in a struggle to get near him, sticks reaching awkwardly over heads to inflict far forceless blows, and on his face the fists; a hundred roaring "Order!", fighting against the tide; three hundred shrieking, "Kill him!" "Have him done with!" "Dash out his brains!", and pressing to that job. Sergeant-at-Arms, meanwhile, Clerk-attending-the-Table, and the physician, had run to give the alarm; but it was by one of those miracles of wild minutes, when turbulent sprites appear to mix themselves in the business of men, worse....

Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419170694
• ISBN-13: 978-1419170690
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,881,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars just a curiosity about it (disregard the stars system), December 15, 2003

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Roberto de Sousa Causo (Sao Paulo, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lord of the Sea (Paperback)

This novel is mentioned in Dashiell Hammett's story "The Gutting of Couffignal," in Hammett's postumous collection _The Big Knockover_ (1962). The master of detective fiction has one anonymous detective of the Continental Op. Agency reading the book for a long of night of guarding wedding presents in the island of Couffignal. "The book was called _The Lord of the Sea_," Hammett wrote, "and had to do with a stong, tough and violent fellow named Hogarth, whose modest plan was to hold the world in one hand. There were plots and counterplots, kidnapings, murders, prisonbreakings, forgeries and burglaries, diamonds large as hats and floating forts larger than Couffignal. It sounds dizzy here, but in the book it was as real as a dime." To call this scientific romance "as real as a dime" sounds flattering enough for me.